Category: Tech

In JavaScript, we have three ways of describing or using functions. 1. Constructors Constructors are used to set up a class with a base set of properties, values, methods, or dependencies. In this simple example for a class Greeting, the constructor is being used to provide an initial value for the variable ‘name’ and takes…

What goals should you have the first year? Where to start? Establishing goals can be overwhelming. Establishing realist goals? Almost impossible without experience. I’m not going to tell you it’s easy or that there is a magic bullet or any other wild claim. There are enough people out there doing that already. There are so many…

Azure is Microsoft’s cloud platform, a competitor to AWS, and the future of the IT world. Inside Azure, I can do everything I could do from inside any workplace IT center, from the systems and access management, to collaborative software engineering. For this article, I will be showing you a small sliver of the last…

Recently I was writing an application that needed to pass a substantial Json object. I had never run into any issues passing Json in .Net but the object I was now working with was pretty large. My application pattern for this project is MVVM. I was using Dapper for my database objects and so far…

If you are anything like me you enjoy open source, free, and non-committal applications for development. Sure there are times when we have to purchase software licenses and even times when it really benefits us. I’m thinking here about WordPress themes and Visual Studio Professional. For things like editing simple markup, or writing syntactically awesome stylesheets…

If you are learning JavaScript you will undoubtedly come across JavaScript Masters repeatedly in your journey. At first like much of JavaScript, the usage of this keyword can be a little confusing. When, why and what is this? This keyword was introduced in the initial definition ECMA standard and has carried through the versions into now. It was…

Sage Intacct has released an official software development toolkit (SDK) in April 2017. This release was just in time, as the Intacct Web Services Test tool is being phased out as Google ends support for Chrome Apps. On the official SDK page, as of writing this post, there is actually only a single example. As I explore…

In any Angular application I am working with, there have been two front end frameworks that I have heavily relied on. I wouldn’t consider any library to use in my project unless it also has an Angular implementation. Material Design for Angular and UI Bootstrap, both possess Angular implementations. In my early involvement with Angular, I…

TypeScript is a free and open-source programming language developed and maintained by Microsoft. It is a strict syntactical superset of JavaScript, and adds optional static typing to the language. – Wikipedia This superset of JavaScript is managed by Microsoft and compiles to JavaScript code. In fact, you can write JavaScript code alongside your TypeScript code. This also…

Use the AWS SDK to Read File from an S3 bucket – for this article it’s assumed you have a root user and S3 services account with Amazon. Setup a IAM Account If you aren’t familiar with IAM, the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) web service you can get started here on the introduction to IAM before…